Member of Technical Staff - Finance Researcher

Halluminates; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 215,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation stipend

401k match

Free meals

Healthcare coverage

Visa sponsorship

Gym membership

Transportation to office

Job summary

Halluminate is seeking an experienced Finance expert to join our research team and lead Applied AI Research in Financial Services. You will define AI tasks, publish taxonomies, and interact with bankers and investment professionals to ground AI capabilities in real-world needs.

You will translate financial insights into RL environment roadmap, collaborate with engineers, and push the boundaries of benchmarks and new directions in AI for finance.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of real-world experience in banking, consulting, strategic finance, investing, etc.
• Deep mission alignment to revolutionize Finance Knowledge Work
• Ability to analyze massive amounts of information and present to researchers and finance leaders
• Product sense to interface between engineering and research teams
• Detail oriented execution across projects with technical problem solving
• Fluency in using LLMs/Agents in daily finance work

Responsibilities

• This is an IC role focused on driving and defining the frontier of AI in Finance.
• Define and publish taxonomy of AI tasks/workflows in finance, expand to other industries.
• Talk with real-world financial services leaders at banks, PE firms, hedge funds, etc.
• Translate insights into RL environment roadmap for the core team
• Drive innovation of RL environment problem building with engineering and research teams
• Define state-of-the-art benchmarks, leaderboards, and new research directions

Skills

Finance domain experience

Communication to execs

Product sense

Detail oriented

LLM/Agents in finance

Job description

Company Description:

Halluminate is a data research lab building benchmarks and RL environments to push the frontier of AI in knowledge work.

Our first area of focus is economically valuable workflows in financial services and consulting, but we are rapidly expanding into adjacent verticals.

Role Description:

Halluminate is looking to hire an experienced Finance expert to join our research team to do Applied AI Research in the Financial Services domains.

The responsibilities of this role include:

• This is an IC role focused on driving and defining the frontier of what AI looks like in Finance.
• Define and publish taxonomy of AI tasks/workflows in finance, and expanding that playbook to other industries (consulting, insurance, accounting, etc) to broader ecosystem and community
• Talk with real-world financial services leaders at major banks, private equity firms, hedge funds, etc to get a boots on the ground report on AI adoption, drawbacks, capabilities, buying decisions, priorities, etc.
• Translating real-world insights on AI capabilities into our roadmap for RL environment building within the core team
• Drive innovation of our RL environment problem building process with engineering and research teams - feedback directly contributing to core product and platform improvements
• Working with research team to define state of the art benchmarks, leaderboards, new research directions, etc.

Necessary Skills Include:

• 4+ years of real-world experience in banking, consulting, strategic finance, investing, etc.
• Deep mission alignment to revolutionize the way Finance Knowledge Work is done in the world
• Ability to analyze massive amounts of information and communicate it in a clean and presentable way for mass audience of stakeholders from researchers to finance industry leaders
• Product sense to interact between engineering and research team to improve platform and processes
• Detail oriented execution across projects, technical and problem solving skills to build and QA RL tasks
• Fluency in use of LLM/Agents in your daily finance work (automating spreadsheet modeling, building evals, testing latest products in finance category)

Benefits

• Fully covered healthcare coverage for yourself and subsidized for dependents (Medical, Dental, Vision)
• Relocation Stipend ($10k+)
• 401k (4% match)
• Food: Free breakfast, lunch, and dinner while working
• Health: Free gym membership
• Transportation: Free transportation to and from the office (Ubers, Waymo)
• Visa Sponsorship (ex. H1B)

Location

Full-Time In Person in San Francisco

Compensation

Base: $215k - $275k

Equity: 0.10 - 0.20%